| A new heart for a new head in vertebrate cardiopharyngeal evolution R Diogo, RG Kelly, L Christiaen, M Levine, JM Ziermann, JL Molnar, ... Nature 520 (7548), 466-473, 2015 | 214 | 2015 |
| Early chordate origins of the vertebrate second heart field A Stolfi, TB Gainous, JJ Young, A Mori, M Levine, L Christiaen Science 329 (5991), 565-568, 2010 | 175 | 2010 |
| FGF signaling delineates the cardiac progenitor field in the simple chordate, Ciona intestinalis B Davidson, W Shi, J Beh, L Christiaen, M Levine Genes & development 20 (19), 2728-2738, 2006 | 162 | 2006 |
| Migratory neuronal progenitors arise from the neural plate borders in tunicates A Stolfi, K Ryan, IA Meinertzhagen, L Christiaen Nature 527 (7578), 371-374, 2015 | 152 | 2015 |
| Tissue-specific genome editing in Ciona embryos by CRISPR/Cas9 A Stolfi, S Gandhi, F Salek, L Christiaen Development 141 (21), 4115-4120, 2014 | 144 | 2014 |
| The transcription/migration interface in heart precursors of Ciona intestinalis L Christiaen, B Davidson, T Kawashima, W Powell, H Nolla, K Vranizan, ... Science 320 (5881), 1349-1352, 2008 | 141 | 2008 |
| The ANISEED database: digital representation, formalization, and elucidation of a chordate developmental program O Tassy, D Dauga, F Daian, D Sobral, F Robin, P Khoueiry, D Salgado, ... Genome research 20 (10), 1459-1468, 2010 | 129 | 2010 |
| FoxF is essential for FGF-induced migration of heart progenitor cells in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis J Beh, W Shi, M Levine, B Davidson, L Christiaen Oxford University Press for The Company of Biologists Limited 134 (18), 3297 …, 2007 | 116 | 2007 |
| ANISEED 2017: extending the integrated ascidian database to the exploration and evolutionary comparison of genome-scale datasets M Brozovic, C Dantec, J Dardaillon, D Dauga, E Faure, M Gineste, ... Nucleic acids research 46 (D1), D718-D725, 2018 | 103 | 2018 |
| Electroporation of transgenic DNAs in the sea squirt Ciona L Christiaen, E Wagner, W Shi, M Levine Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 2009 (12), pdb. prot5345, 2009 | 100 | 2009 |
| Collier/OLF/EBF-dependent transcriptional dynamics control pharyngeal muscle specification from primed cardiopharyngeal progenitors F Razy-Krajka, K Lam, W Wang, A Stolfi, M Joly, R Bonneau, L Christiaen Developmental cell 29 (3), 263-276, 2014 | 98 | 2014 |
| Isolation of sea squirt (Ciona) gametes, fertilization, dechorionation, and development L Christiaen, E Wagner, W Shi, M Levine Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 2009 (12), pdb. prot5344, 2009 | 83 | 2009 |
| Divergent mechanisms regulate conserved cardiopharyngeal development and gene expression in distantly related ascidians A Stolfi, EK Lowe, C Racioppi, F Ristoratore, CT Brown, BJ Swalla, ... elife 3, e03728, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| The dopamine‐synthesizing cells in the swimming larva of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis are located only in the hypothalamus‐related domain of the sensory vesicle F Moret, L Christiaen, C Deyts, M Blin, JS Joly, P Vernier European Journal of Neuroscience 21 (11), 3043-3055, 2005 | 81 | 2005 |
| NK4 antagonizes Tbx1/10 to promote cardiac versus pharyngeal muscle fate in the ascidian second heart field W Wang, F Razy-Krajka, E Siu, A Ketcham, L Christiaen PLoS biology 11 (12), e1001725, 2013 | 78 | 2013 |
| A single-cell transcriptional roadmap for cardiopharyngeal fate diversification W Wang, X Niu, T Stuart, E Jullian, WM Mauck III, RG Kelly, R Satija, ... Nature cell biology 21 (6), 674-686, 2019 | 77 | 2019 |
| Genetic and Genomic Toolbox of the Chordate Ciona intestinalis A Stolfi, L Christiaen Genetics 192 (1), 55-66, 2012 | 77 | 2012 |
| Pitx genes in Tunicates provide new molecular insight into the evolutionary origin of pituitary L Christiaen, P Burighel, WC Smith, P Vernier, F Bourrat, JS Joly Gene 287 (1-2), 107-113, 2002 | 71 | 2002 |
| Guidelines for the nomenclature of genetic elements in tunicate genomes A Stolfi, Y Sasakura, D Chalopin, Y Satou, L Christiaen, C Dantec, T Endo, ... genesis 53 (1), 1-14, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| Regulatory gene expressions in the ascidian ventral sensory vesicle: evolutionary relationships with the vertebrate hypothalamus F Moret, L Christiaen, C Deyts, M Blin, P Vernier, JS Joly Developmental biology 277 (2), 567-579, 2005 | 65 | 2005 |
Alberto StolfiGeorgia Institute of TechnologyVerified email at gatech.edu
